Amirite? According to Wikipedia, it is even nicknamed R2D2 because of the dome shape. Imagine space fighters/bombers equipped with these (prohibitive weight less of an issue because of zero gravity?). You wouldn't have to aim or even point your craft in a certain direction. The targeting computer would merely have to take into consideration your direction/speed and target direction/speed and calculate the appropriate leading distance. It wouldn't even have to be all that accurate given the obscene fire rate (cloud of lead) this thing puts out. The lethality of projectiles in space would be ridiculous too (no gravity/air resistance).

The problem would be how to keep it from pushing you backwards as it fires, what with Newton's 3rd and all. That in itself might make ballistic projectile-based space battles unappealing. Now, give it a couple of lasers like the kind we're already mounting on airplanes...

I'm not too swooft with the physics, but wouldn't you just need an equal mass in the opposite direction from the round trajectory? Like, an attitude adjustment jet or something wired with the firing mechanism?

When the singularity machine(s) watches that it's gonna laugh, then find it insulting, then laugh again. Of course this will all happen much faster than it could to a human, so you'll barely notice the pause as it continues to hunt down and destroy what remains of humanity.

Applicable quote from Caddy Shack. Carl- "If he bothers you, I'll take care of him. What you've got to do is cut the hamstring on the back of his leg right at the bottom. He'll never play golf again, because his weight displacement goes back, all his weight is on his right foot, and he'll push everything off to the right. He'll never come through on anything. He'll quit the game."

I don't think anybody took the time to think that the robot could develop the ability to think. For all we know, at present, the robot might think we're thinking it could think, but knows that we actually think it isn't thinking, which is exactly what it wants, so it can kill us to death.

That's right you motherfuckers. Keep kicking me and laughing. But if you want to sell me to the military, some day you're going to have to put a gun on me. We'll see who's laughing then. Did you see Robocop?

For some reason I think it would be a lot of fun to have some of these programmed to chase people and to pay admission to a park, kinda like LaserTag, where you can be chased around by giant robot monster dogs.

Maybe someone can help me out with this. If my understanding is correct, BigDog does not pertain to the Uncanny Valley because it is a unrealistic rendition of a generic quadruped. The Uncanny Valley refers to that uneasy you feeling you get from seeing a hyper-realistic sex doll or badly done CGI: it's coming just short of 'real' and always looking 'realistic'.

I think it could almost work as the uncanny valley, because it's just short of looking like real, biologically evolved movement. If that is what makes it creepy to the OP, then I think it can work here. It would be a different take on what makes the uncanny valley uncanny, but it's the same principle at work.

I suppose the principle does work from a subjective point of view, but then that falls on a slippery slope of relativism. If forced to think of the Uncanny Valley in absolute terms, I think I'd take my view from the consistency of field of robotics, which often uses 'hyper-real' subjects to illustrate the point. After all, if you do a google image search for Uncanny Valley, that is what you get. It should also be noted that this repulsion is not exclusive to the higher primates: The Uncanny Monkey Valley

It's actually kinda cute but some people said they were freaked out by it when it was on reddit a while ago. I can imagine it'd be freaky if you saw it at night in the woods by yourself but here, he just looks funny and goofy.

I got several seconds into that video assuming it was a very well designed robot, and the comedians in the lab climbed into a tree to let it "emerge" from the forest a la bigfoot. Then I processed further what I was seeing and became quite fearful for humanity. That non-handicapped cub is going to learn how to walk upright as well...and then the next and the next.

Yeah, I'm thinking that everyone who watches this, initially thinking there are two people there only to see their legs separate as the robot stumbles around was at least a little disturbed. I know I was.

Are you fucking kidding me? WTF is the uncanny valley has to do with it?

I don't know about you guys, but I live in the fucking future! We have awesome robots here. Yeah, it's military sponsored future, but what the hell, the Internet started as DARPA project as well. This is not disturbing, it's fucking exciting (also, I'm fucking drunk, but that doesn't invalidate my point)

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